So many new machines are coming out about the size of the XO laptop. I've heard that 50 distinct different laptop models will be introduced at Computex (in Taiwan) alone in early June. These machines use screens between 7-10″ diagonals - and have been slapped together rather quickly to capitalize on the momentum first created by One Laptop per Child. The problem: these are expensive laptops - the least expensive of the lot is more than twice the price of the XO laptop from OLPC. Now, I know the detailed cost structure of these laptops, they use commodity parts, and find it quite surprising that an effort to make low cost laptops would arrive here (at the moment) with huge profit margins north of 50%. But with so much competition for this space, the high prices shouldn't last long. At the very least, we should have extremely low-power, sunlight readable, high resolution screens in these and other laptops. Pixel Qi is working towards this and we will announce some of our partners soon. ... http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/05/13/back-to-reality/ -- http://karounos.gr/blog/